1 Best Releases From Wager-Film Studio

If you’re like me, every time the Razzie Awards announce their dubious nominees each year the first thing you think is “The Razzies are still a thing?” Yes, incredibly, despite their ever-diminishing relevance, they’re still around. Whereas once they were a fun and much-needed rebuttal to Hollywood excess, the Razzies in recent years have gotten lazy, obvious and a little mean-spirited. Not helping are such embarrassing snafus as announcing an entirely new category dedicated to Bruce Willis mere days before Willis’s family revealed that the actor would be retiring due to a dementia diagnosis.  The Razzies rescinded and apologized for the nomination, but the damage was done, and the question remains: in an era where seemingly one-third of podcasts are dedicated to shredding bad movies (the remaining two-thirds are, of course, related to true crime), what purpose do the Razzies even serve anymore, if they ever served one in the first place? Flipping the script a bit, the Criterion Channel is “honoring” the Razzies in March, featuring a collection of movies that have been in their crosshairs since the awards show’s inception in 1980. Several of the featured films have reputations that improved over time, a few should have never been nominated in the first place, and some absolutely deserved their pillorying: we (or rather, I, it’s just me writing this) rank them from “actually great” to “literally the worst.” Continue Reading →